Luminar is more like Lightroom, while Affinity Photo is more similar to Photoshop. Luminar also offers a wide range of tools, filters, and other presets at a much more affordable price than Adobe products. Aug 28, 2020 First: Affinity photo is an excellent raster editor and a terrific deal at current prices - good software. BUT the raw develop module is poor to the point where I would rate it not usable. Now it's a simple matter to just use some other raw conversion software (even free) and then Affinity is a good raster editor. Luminar AI Plugin Review (for Affinity Photo) Posted on January 3, 2021 by admin Here’s a review of the features in Luminar AI when used as a plugin for Affinity Photo. Bottom line is while most things can be done just fine in Affinity, there are a few items which are done really well in Luminar. In this video, we will look at a simple way to use Luminar editing software as plugin in Affinity Photo. This video also looks at the solution to fix the Lum. Jan 17, 2020 Affinity Photo and Luminar are both excellent image editing programs. Both offer advanced image editing to allow you to create spectacular photos. Either program would be an asset in any photographer’s toolbox. However, when it comes to the overall winner, Luminar just beats Affinity.

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A message from the Affinity team

As a way to lend support to the creative community during these difficult times, we’re once again offering a 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite, for anyone who wants to use them (even those who have previously completed a free trial). We’re also bringing back the 50% discount for those who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including our iPad versions.

In other news…

our apps are fully optimized for the next generation of Mac

Ready to go on Apple’s Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips, recent updates to the macOS versions of our apps mean huge performance gains.

**Update January 3rd 2018 – New film sims based on the X100F including Acros are now available! Read below for more details. You can find the old sims (XTransII v3) at the bottom of the page.**
**Update February 16th 2018 – Mono+R was accidentally a copy of Acros+R – this is fixed in the latest download links.**

Modern Fujifilm cameras are popular for their built-in film simulations, however only a handful of editors are capable of replicating them.

I have created a set of LUTs (look up tables) based on the film simulations from Fujifilm’s own “RAW FILE CONVERTER” software which produce very close results to the in-camera processing.

The latest version was created using an X100F and includes all simulations present on the camera including: Provia, Velvia, Astia, Classic Chrome, Pro Neg Hi, Pro Neg Std, Acros, Acros + Ye, Acros + R, Acros + G, Mono, Mono + Ye, Mono + R, Mono + G and Sepia. Note that the Acros sims have ISO dependent grain applied by the camera which will be absent here.

Fuji XTrans III – Profiles ready to use in RawTherapee and Affinity Photo. [direct download]
Fuji XTrans III [Luminar] – Presets for Luminar 2018. [direct download]
Fuji XTrans III [3DL] – 3DL LUTs to be used in any software that supports them (Affinity / Luminar / On1 etc). [direct download]
Fuji XTrans III [ProPhoto] – ProPhoto profiles to be used in Affinity Photo (see below). [direct download]
Fuji XTrans III [dtstyle] – Darktable profiles converted from my HaldCLUT originals by Andy Costanza of the Darktable community.

Usage

The simulations are designed to be applied to a neutral RAW file, this means no auto-levels or custom tone curves / contrast should be applied, although you can still use the exposure slider to correct initial brightness. Any processing to the image should ideally happen AFTER you’ve applied the simulation or you may get unintended results.

RawTherapee – install the HaldCLUT package, go to the install location and add the profiles to a sub-folder, then restart RT.

Remember to disable auto-levels and reset your exposure sliders before applying!

Affinity Photo – there are two ways to apply a simulation. Both use the LUT Adjustment Layer:

1. Select “Infer Lut”, pick the identity PNG file and in the second dialog the desired simulation. You can then save the adjustment as a profile for quick access in the future. As it’s a layer you can also blend/mask as desired.
2. Select “Load LUT” and pick the desired 3DL simulation file. Note that this will only give accurate results in the sRGB colour space.

Luminar Affinity Photo Plugin

Affinity LUT adjustments are affected by your working colour space. The standard profiles are sRGB and will give undesired results if used in a different colour space. You can download ProPhoto LUTs here, or if you work in a different space you can create your own by opening the identity image and each profile in Affinity then exporting as a PNG with the correct ICC profile selected in Export Settings.

Remember to disable the tone-curve in RAW assistant!

Luminar(presets) – open Luminar and select “Show Presets Folder” from the File menu. From here you can either:

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• Unzip the presets directly into this folder; they will appear under the “Custom” preset category.
• Go up a level from the User directory then unzip the preset folder into the Extra directory, they will then appear in their own category.

Luminar (3DL) – add the LUT filter and select your 3DL.

Luminar applies a tone-curve to the image by default that can’t be disabled at time of writing. This leads to the image having too much contrast when the LUT is applied. Thankfully the LUT filter has its own contrast/saturation sliders; I’ve found setting contrast to -45 and saturation to 20 compensates for this and gives very similar results to other applications.

Note for XTrans III camera users; Luminar has a slight colour shift on RAW files compared to other converters. You can negate this by applying a HSL hue shift of +20 to reds and blues. Make sure this filter is applied before the LUT filter (i.e. higher up in the filter list).

Examples

Examples of every film simulation can be found in the gallery. Here is a selection:

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Images on the left have the LUT applied to the neutral RAW file opened in RawTherapee with no other changes (apart from exposure), images on the right are JPGs produced directly from the camera.

Previous Version – XTransII V3

Luminar 4 And Affinity Photo

These are also currently included in G’MIC, which can be used standalone or as a plugin to GIMP.